" Wilson argues that during the Avar War, Charlemagne's "greatest stroke of good fortune, was the appropriation of the vast Avar treasure" After attacking the Avar camp known as 'The Ring' Charlemagne amassed a huge wealth and, as Einhard writes, it turned the Franks "from paupers into midases.... Einhard and Becher both underplay the role of the church during the Saxon Wars; instead they view it as a tool of government by which to claim booty. ... Einhard highlights a key point in saying that Charlemagne was induced by the Bishop of Rome to wage war on the ...

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After the collapse of the classical Greek and Roman empires, Western European civilization struggled with each other to become the dominant empire in the region. This period of instability in Western Europe made room for a new group to dominate; the Islamic Empires. Recognized as having one of the m...

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